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See also: cogitò
English[edit]
Noun[edit]
cogito (usually uncountable, plural cogitos)
- (philosophy, often preceded by the, sometimes capitalized) The argument "cogito, ergo sum" ("I think therefore I am") from the philosophy of René Descartes; the mental act of thinking this thought; a conscious being which performs this mental act.
- 1957, Jean-Paul Sartre, translated by Forrest Williams and Robert Kirkpatrick, The Transcendence of the Ego, Noonday Press, pages 43–44:
- The Cogito of Descartes and Husserl is an apprehension of fact. […] Such a Cogito is performed by a consciousness directed upon consciousness, a consciousness which takes consciousness as an object.
- 1966 Dec, Geoffrey Hartman, “Beyond Formalism”, in MLN, volume 81, number 5, page 551:
- But are there not as many consciousnesses or cogitos as there are individuals?
- 1984 Jan, Charles Larmore, “Descartes' Psychologistic Theory of Assent”, in History of Philosophy Quarterly, volume 1, number 1, page 65:
- An obvious candidate for this class of propositions would be the cogito, whose evidence, Descartes insisted, is not founded on inference.
- 2000 Spring, Linnell Secomb, "Fractured Community," Hypatia, vol. 15, no. 2, p. 138:
- Benhabib proposes a […] "recognition that the subjects of reason are finite, embodied and fragile creatures, and not disembodied cogitos or abstract unities of transcendental apperception".
- 2009 May, Ernest Sosa, “Précis of A Virtue Epistemology”, in Philosophical Studies: An International Journal for Philosophy in the Analytic Tradition, " vol. 144, no. 1, p. 109 n11:
- It may be thought that this leads to an even more radical skepticism than that envisaged by Descartes, since now even the cogito may be questioned.
Anagrams[edit]
French[edit]
Noun[edit]
cogito m (plural cogitos)
Further reading[edit]
- “cogito”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian[edit]
Verb[edit]
cogito
Anagrams[edit]
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkoː.ɡi.toː/, [ˈkoːɡɪt̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈko.d͡ʒi.to/, [ˈkɔːd͡ʒit̪o]
Audio (Classical) (file)
Verb[edit]
cōgitō (present infinitive cōgitāre, perfect active cōgitāvī, supine cōgitātum); first conjugation
- I think
- 63 B.C.E., Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)
- Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.
- You do nothing, you plan nothing, you think of nothing which I not only do not hear, but which I do not see and know every particular of.
- Nihil agis, nihil moliris, nihil cogitas quod non ego non modo audiam sed etiam videam planeque sentiam.
- 63 B.C.E., Cicero, Catiline Orations (Latin text and English translations here)
- I ponder, meditate, reflect, consider (i.e. think of, about, over)
- I intend, design, purpose, plan, devise (i.e. have in mind)
Conjugation[edit]
1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.
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Descendants[edit]
- Eastern Romance:
- Romanian: cugeta, cugetare
- Italian: cogitare, coitare
- Old Francoprovençal: cuidar, cuidier
- Old French: cuidier, cuider, kuider, quider, quidier
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: cuidar
- Old Occitan: cuidar
- Occitan: coidar
- Old Galician-Portuguese: cuidar, coidar
- Old Spanish: coidar
- Spanish: cuidar
- Rhaeto-Romance:
- Romansch: quitar
- → Proto-Albanian: *kugitɔnjœ,
- → Catalan: cogitar
- → English: cogitate
- → French: cogiter
- → Italian: cogitare
- → Portuguese: cogitar
- → Spanish: cogitar
References[edit]
- “cogito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cogito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cogito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to take no thought for the future: futura non cogitare, curare
- to take no thought for the future: futura non cogitare, curare
- cogito in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
Portuguese[edit]
Verb[edit]
cogito
Spanish[edit]
Verb[edit]
cogito
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